Critical insights at the intersection of animals and politics
Animal fighters are trafficking in millions of fighting animals and are involved in illegal gambling, narcotics, money laundering, shootings, and murder Washington, D.C. – Driven by concerns for the barbarism of animal fighting, other criminal behavior comingled with it, and disease threats to poultry posed by transporting fighting roosters, U.S. Reps. Don Bacon, R-Neb., and Andrea … Read more
Press Release Indifference by Two Kentucky State Police Posts Raises Questions About Possible Corruption Louisville — Citing a failure to act on credible information about organized crime and illegal animal fighting enterprises, Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK), Animal Wellness Action, and 50 other animal welfare organizations called on Gov. Andy Beshear and Attorney General … Read more
Organization Encourages Cooperation with Federal Law Enforcement, While Also Noting New Legislation to Crack Down on Animal Fighting to be Introduced in Congress Today Washington, D.C. — Today, Animal Wellness Action offered plaudits to the Marlboro County Sheriff’s Office for investigating illegal cockfighting ventures and making arrests in a case within its jurisdiction. Given the complexities in the … Read more
AWA had issued multiple warning about Hawaii being a massive cockfighting hub and one of the top hotspots anywhere in the nation for this crime Washington, D.C. – Animal Wellness Action reacted to the mass shooting at the close of a cockfighting event in Oahu, noting that “it has forecast this very sort of mass shooting … Read more
Washington, D.C. — Today, Animal Wellness Action reacted with shock and alarm to an administrative commission determination that Guam Department of Agriculture law enforcement officer Ken San Nicolas would be fully reinstated in his position and given backpay even though acknowledging and conceding that he participated in illegal cockfighting. Staging an animal fight is a federal felony, with … Read more
Washington, D.C. — Today, Animal Wellness Action reacted with distress and anguish after learning that thousands of cattle trapped inside a Texas factory farm perished in a massive fire triggered by an explosion at the industrial milk production facility in the panhandle. On April 13, at about 7 p.m., first responders arrived to see plumes of smoke rising … Read more
Press Release Second of two bills bill to decriminalize cockfighting dies today in state legislature, dramatically reducing the threat of any weakening of the state’s voter-approved law Oklahoma City – The effort to unwind the state law making cockfighting a felony met with a final defeat today, with the Senate choosing not even to give … Read more
Press Release Claudia Miller Ignite Series launches with an examination of the ‘milk mandate’ in the National School Lunch Program and the need for a plant-based alternative Washington, DC – Animal Wellness Action, a Washington, DC-based animal-advocacy group, has announced the first in a monthly series of educational webinars that will focus on issues relating … Read more
State Legislative News Analysis The measures are likely to meet same fate as prior years’ efforts to unwind the state’s most important anti-cruelty law In Oklahoma, pro-cockfighting bills in the state House and Senate are on life support, despite a well-funded lobbying campaign by the Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission (OGC); the work of its professional lobbying … Read more
Sooners see cockfighting as ‘very definition of barbarism and backwardness’ Oklahoma City — Today, Animal Wellness Action, which has been leading the effort to defend State Question 687 from efforts in the Oklahoma legislature to gut its provisions, reacted to a just-released poll from the Sooner Survey. The statistically valid survey of 500 Oklahomans revealed … Read more